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NEWSAOC Responds To Met Gala Criticism: It’s My ‘Responsibility’ To Party With Elites, ‘Haters’
Team Tucker Carlson ^ | 9/13/21

Posted on 09/14/2021 11:21:18 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) tried to defend herself online after she was swarmed with criticism for wearing an emblazoned “Tax the Rich” dress to the Met Gala, where tables could reportedly cost more than $275,000 and individual tickets are priced at around $30,000.

AOC scolded “haters” about the criticism and contended that going to the fancy event with rich elites was actually her just doing her job as a congresswoman in New York City.

“And before haters get wild flying off the handle, New York elected officials are routinely invited to and attend the Met due to our responsibilities in overseeing and supporting the city’s cultural institutions for the public,” the representative wrote via Twitter. “I was one of several in attendance in this evening.”

In the same Twitter thread, Ocasio-Cortez rationalized that the “medium is the message” and emphasized that her designer is a “Black woman immigrant designer.”

“The medium is the message,” read a screen-capped image from AOC’s Instagram account.

“Proud to work with @aurorajames as a sustainably focused, Black woman immigrant designer who went from starting her dream @brothervellies at a flea market in Brooklyn to winning the @cfda against all odds – and then work together to kick open the doors at the Met,” she wrote. “The time is now for childcare, healthcare, and climate action for all. Tax the Rich.”

“And yes, BEFORE anybody starts wilding out – NYC elected officials are regularly invited to and attend the Met due to our responsibilities in overseeing our city’s cultural institutions that serve the public. I was one of several in attendance. Dress is borrowed via @brothervellies,” the post continued.

For good measure, AOC added, “All-BIPOC/women/LGBT+ team.”

AOC was widely mocked and criticized online, including by her supporters, for the stunt, including:

Ej Dickson, senior writer at Rolling Stone, tweeted: “Am I the only one who thinks this is really f***ing stupid[?] 1) The dress is ugly, 2) She’s at a $35k per person event and this isn’t nearly the own she thinks it is. 3) The dress is ugly. I mean I love her but come on this is so dumb. Peak girl boss s**t.” Glenn Greenwald, a progressive blogger, tweeted: “Lots of people commenting snidely on the lack of masks and social distancing in this opulent indoor event in the middle of a pandemic but — as was true of Obama’s indoor bash — COVID wasn’t invited to the #MetGala and these are the sophisticated people who aren’t in danger.”

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) tweeted: “I’m not even mad at the lack of self awareness or hypocrisy anymore. At this point it’s just hilarious. These people are a giant joke.”

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted: “What makes @AOC a bigger fraud: The “tax the rich” dress while she’s hanging out with a bunch of wealthy leftwing elites or the lack of masks after spending the past 18 months as one of the biggest authoritarian mask Karens in the country?”

Stephen Taylor, political commentator, tweeted: “This is such a political miscalculation. It’s quite amazing to be watching it in realtime.”

Jacques, political commentator, tweeted: “I thought maybe the progressives were being too harsh on AOC lately but nope, they were right lmao.”

Lisa Boothe, Fox News commentator, tweeted: “Outside of AOC being tone deaf and a complete hypocrite, the dress is ugly.”

Scott Lincicome, Cato Institute, tweeted: “Really looking forward to the Versace guillotine sponsored by Boeing.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tweeted: “Cost per Ticket: $30,000. Virtue signaling to your base while partying—without a mask—with the people you claim to hate: Priceless.”

Batya Ungar-Sargon, Newsweek editor, tweeted: If you spent your whole life trying, you couldn’t come up with a better illustration of woke progressivism as smokescreen for class that perpetuates inequality than the progressive avatar at the pinnacle of conspicuous consumption being feted with a cheeky slogan across her back.

Dan McLaughlin, National Review senior writer, tweeted: “Whatever AOC is doing, it is not populism.”

Stephen Miller, political commentator, tweeted: “You know who isn’t at the Met Gala? Joe Manchin.”


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: aoc; hypocrite
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I suppose in one respect AOC is a uniter, she got a rather DIVERSE group all over the political spectrum dumping on her, it might be a good thing. I knew AOC was FOS from the get go. She never was the Alex feom the block she pretends to be.
That "Bronx tenement" she bragged about being born in is in the Parkchester Apt Complex, kinda like a Trump Towers for the middle class. By the time her parents moved in the place was going condo. Her father was an architect who no doubt used his connections (PRIVILEDGE, if you will) to land a great deal on one of the units. By the time they moved to the mansion in northern Westchester Cty they scored a huge profit, by then the complex was landmarked because of it's beautiful prewar art deco architecture. Hypocrites gonna be hypocrites.
1 posted on 09/14/2021 11:21:18 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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>> Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) tweeted:

I’m really glad Dan checked in.


2 posted on 09/14/2021 11:27:38 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Impala64ssa

ACCESS standard response to anything that makes her look bad is to blame “haters”. She sounds like a 15 year old Tik Tok addict.


3 posted on 09/14/2021 11:28:51 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

That should read AOC’s standard response. I hate autocorrect.


4 posted on 09/14/2021 11:32:14 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Impala64ssa
Yeah, she was just doing her very tough job.

'Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.'

Squealer the Pig, in Orwell's Animal Farm

5 posted on 09/14/2021 11:34:20 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Impala64ssa
Why isn't anyone stating the obvious?

Ms. Cortez (always reminds me of her famous Namensvetter - and, maybe, ancestor? - who massacred the Native Americans and stole their land) is, quite frankly, a latter-day Jesus, ministering to the publicans and harlots.

Regards,

6 posted on 09/14/2021 11:36:55 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

I call her “Cortez the Job Killer”


7 posted on 09/14/2021 11:37:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Impala64ssa

AOC: ‘I’m in the Inner Party”.


8 posted on 09/14/2021 11:40:57 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dfwgator
I call her “Cortez the Job Killer”

Not nearly damning enough!

That's like criticizing - oh, I dunno - Reichsführer SS Himmler because the trains to the concentration camps didn't always run on time.

BTW: Anyone know if there are any photos of Ms. Cortez schmoozing with the other guests at the gala event, sipping a cocktail, or enjoying a nosh? She makes it sound as though she had been running around shouting "How Dare You?!" at all of the other attendees, like Scoldy-Locks.

Regards,

9 posted on 09/14/2021 11:45:25 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Hypocrite and a fake, period.


10 posted on 09/14/2021 11:49:45 PM PDT by cranked
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AND THIS——Instagram, which is owned by the Facebook censors, “was able to purchase access to Representative Ocasio-Cortez that is unavailable to average citizens” by connivingly sponsoring a table at the Gala....

<><>did they lobby AOC for their special interests?
<><>did AOC discuss govt business with the censors?
<><>did AOC MAKE ANY PROMISES to the censors?
<><>did AOC make plans to assist them WRT the censorship agenda?


11 posted on 09/14/2021 11:50:55 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use)
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To: Impala64ssa

the A-lister response to prom dress barbie at a glitterati event was best said by Mike Rapaport:

“@AOC will soon be rich with a ginormous production deal from somewhere & done with Politics, guarantee it. Stop treating ANY of these people like celebrities they are public servants and work for us,” he posted theorizing on her future plans.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/actor-michael-rapaport-calls-out-aoc-over-met-gala-dress/ar-AAOpZ3e?ocid=msedgntp


12 posted on 09/14/2021 11:54:32 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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“Noblesse Oblige!”

“My Peasants need me to go to these tiresome royal affairs to represent them!”


13 posted on 09/14/2021 11:58:40 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Impala64ssa
AOC graduated with honors from Boston University with a degree in international studies and economics — and she was working as a bartender in NYC at the age of 28. That’s all you need to know about how stunted and mis-educated this dingbat is.

Found this item hilarious:

Scott Lincicome, Cato Institute, tweeted: “Really looking forward to the Versace guillotine sponsored by Boeing.”

14 posted on 09/14/2021 11:59:58 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest, ‘til a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: alexander_busek

HAH GOOD ONE——She makes it sound as though she’d been running around all night, shaking her painted a** at the rich.....shouting “How Dare You?

There must be photos of Ms. Cortez schmoozing with the rich guests, hoisting crystal stemware of vintage chilled Moet Chandon..... gorging on caviar noshes.


15 posted on 09/15/2021 12:18:21 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use)
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To: Impala64ssa

It’s hugely illegal to take a $35K gift.


16 posted on 09/15/2021 1:53:15 AM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Impala64ssa

Sad thing is that she will continue to be elected by the low-information voters in her district. Sickening.


17 posted on 09/15/2021 1:56:02 AM PDT by DennisR (Uh Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.v)
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To: Impala64ssa

Reading about stuff liken this makes me cringe and feel embarrassed for my country


18 posted on 09/15/2021 2:57:52 AM PDT by KTM rider (Beware the Jaberwocky !)
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To: Impala64ssa

I thought the Hunger Games was only a movie?


19 posted on 09/15/2021 3:50:50 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Impala64ssa

If it was a gift, then she owes taxes on that. If it wasn’t a gift, then she’s obviously not “working class”.


20 posted on 09/15/2021 4:27:52 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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